Two takes on oil pastel paintings. One of the artists is 7 and the other is 12. The first step is to sketch out what you want in your picture. The younger student adds lots and lots of thorns and leaves. My older student chose three plants from the garden and then some buckets that were laying around.
Both students needed a break from their drawings so we worked on their tissue covered treasure/jewelry boxes.
If you do this at home you will want to decide whether or not to use tissue that bleeds. The non-bleeding type is more expensive. If you want to use dark and light shades it helps to have the non-bleed type because the dark colors have a tendency to bleed and make your project all black. The treasure box can also be trying on short attention spans. I recommend you try doing one side at a time; remember this is supposed to be fun AND help your child build up their attention span. Rome was not built in a day! It took lots of patience and time.
We have another session this week. That is when we add the oil pastel to our sketch. The students are talking about adding real insects to their pictures...we'll see!
